Chapter seven ready to go. Enjoy.
I don't own Transformers. I only own Caleb.
Ratchet, Fowler, Miko, and Rafael watch as the drones open fire on their allies.
At the fight
Kup transforms into his vehicle mode opens fire on the drone while the others scatter.
Bulkhead: Optimus, what do we do?
Prime: We fight.
Bulkhead & Bee: You got it. BEP POW
Bulkhead grabs Bumblebee and launches him at the drone. The drone launches a missile at Bumblebee, it misses and Bumblebee lands on the drone and he starts to just beat the crap out of it. After a minute of abuse, it discharges a shockwave that knocks Bumblebee off it's back.
Bulkhead rushes to catch Bumblebee. "I got ya!"
Bulkhead didn't have him; Bumblebee slams into Bulkhead, knocking him to ground.
Jetfire: Ratchet, we need a ground bridge at our location. An unknown hostile has opened fire. (STATIC) Optimus, are signals are being jammed, I cannot get through to Ratchet. Might as well have some fun then!
He transforms and joins Slipstream in the air.
Slipstream: You up for combat old timer?
Jetfire: I've been doing this before Prime was even a PRIME! I can handle this drone, help Kup take out the other one!
Jetfire let's loose a salvo of mavericks that chase the drone. The drone zooms by Kup and the missiles hit the ground around him.
Kup transforms and stumbles around, "Damn it! Jetfire, watch what your doing!"
Jetfire: Sorry Kup, my –
The second drone slams Jetfire into the ground
Elita: Optimus!
Optimus: Right!
The pair rush the drone.
Optimus tackles it off Jetfire while Elita pulls him out of the dirt.
Optimus: Bulkhead!
Optimus hurls the drone towards Bulkhead.
Bulkhead: Bee!
Bulkhead uppercuts it into the air. Bumblebee jumps up and dropkicks the drone out of the sky. The drone goes spiraling down towards the dirt, past the second drone, and it slams into Slipstream.
She hits the ground hard.
Slipstream transforms back to bot mode: Ugh… That… was not fun.
As she gets to her feet; the crashed drone starts charging a cannon and aims at Slipstream. Bee and Elita notice and rush to get Slipstream out of the way. Bee grabs Slipstream and goes to move, but the cannon fires.
Elita: NO!
She jumps in way as the cannon goes off.
POWBRZZT
When the dust settles, all they see is a burnt crater that is still smoldering.
Kup: Did… that just happen?
Optimus stands there in total shock. After a moment, he starts walking towards the drone. He draws his sword and puts a scratch down the length of the drone. "I am going to make you regret that!" He goes to stab the drone, and then…
POWBRZZT
Where Optimus once stood, there was now another smoldering crater.
All at once: OPTIMUS!
The first drone picks itself up and flies away alongside the second drone. Then, all of a sudden, a bridge opens. But it's not green and blue, it's dark red and purple. The drones go through and the bridge closes.
Everyone stands there, dumbfounded.
Kup: Well, uh, that just happened. What would the natives call this situation?
Bee: GREE TIP BER
Bulkhead: Language!
With the Decepticons
Lab door opens: enter Starscream and Shockwave.
Shockwave: Yes, I have warp modules. But they are incomplete; it needs a strong enough energon source so that whoever uses it is not drained of all their energon and ultimately dies.
Starscream: Lord Megatron did have an energon cube… But that was to wake up the sleeper.
Starscream begins to think and Shockwave opens a cabinet to inspect its contents.
Shockwave: Lord Megatron did not use a warp module. They are all still here.
Starscream: Then –
Soundwave burst into the lab and immediately connects to a computer.
Starscream: Gah! Soundwave! Don't do that!
Shockwave: You are behaving out of the ordinary, is there a problem?
Soundwave: (Replay) Interesting. Problem.
The video plays on the monitor alongside a list of data. They watch the video up until Elita and Optimus get blasted. The video stops and the data goes haywire then back to normal.
Shockwave: Interesting, send me a copy of this data and the video. Starscream, I will require assistance.
Starscream: Very well. Soundwave! Locate any more areas with fractural residue.
Soundwave nods and leaves.
Shockwave and Starscream grab different things and look at the data. Then they say at the same time: Let's get to work.
In the woods
Arcee: Come on Jack, which one am I? The pretty girl or the awesome car?
Jack: Uhm, you are the –
Bzzz Bzzz Bzzz
Jack: (Thank God) Hello? Okay, we'll keep an eye out. Alright, we'll find him.
Arcee: (Annoyed) Okay, so what were you saying?
Jack: In a minute. There are drones in the area, so be on your guard. Also, they couldn't contact Caleb. We might have to go find him.
Jack goes in the tent searching earnestly for a flashlight.
Arcee: Great. ( She cocks her head to the side.) Jack, you hear that?
Jack: Hear what?
Jack walks out of the tent with flashlights and the .357. "All right, let's go find him."
POWBRZZT
A blinding flash and the ground shakes. Jack and Arcee stagger for a second and eventually get upright. Where the tent was, there is now a smoking crater.
Arcee: Jack! You okay?!
Jack: Yeah, you?
Arcee: Yes. Let's get out of here before it fires again.
Jack: Great idea.
She transforms into her vehicle mode and Jack climbs on and they zoom off into the woods to find Caleb.
At that moment, the drone locks on to them and fires…
With Caleb
Caleb: Done. (Makes a call) Huh, voicemail. Yo, Jack. The charges are set so don't head east. I don't need you and Arcee setting off my noise makers. (Ends call) Now, —
The ground shakes and Caleb hears a few shots off in the distance. "Great, I'm missing the fight." He starts heading back towards camp.
Unbeknownst to Caleb, he was being watched.
(People of all races {said that to be politically correct} that are reading this, thank you for sticking with me and this story. Also, changing up my writing style a little bit. Please enjoy.)
Airachnid's p.o.v
"I should probably return to my ship. Ugh, when I see Soundwave, I am going to have his face plate for giving me a defective repair drone."
Quick flashback
I watched the drone as it made repairs to my ship. After a few hours, it started beeping, letting me know it was done. "Finally, I thought I was going to rust to death. Move!"
I forced the drone away from the consoles and I ran a system check. Everything was in order, I was low on power, but that was an easy fix. "Come with me drone." I turned around and headed to the fueling area. Beep click. I looked around, blasters ready, but there was nothing.
I continue over to my energon stock. I grab two cubes and take them over to the injectors. I place the cubes inside and everything starts running smoothly. Beep click.
I realized it was the drone making the noise. I looked over and it was… twitching. "Are you alright?" Beep beep click. The drone creates a hologram of it's design with a few parts in red. "You're defective? Great. Well, let's try to fix you."
"Good thing I was an engineer before I was a torturer." I grab the drone and a wrench. I go and set my course to the next galaxy and I head back to the drone. I connect it to a power cell and some energon. "Shall we?" I reached around the back and flipped the switch, as I was pulling my arm back, the drone exploded.
I jerked away and took cover right as the power cell short circuited and the explosion combined with the energon as fuel, blew a hole into side of the ship.
End flashback
I tried to move my left arm and as I did a jolt of pain went all the way down my side and back. "I need repairs… scrap, my medical equipment was destroyed in the blast. Might as –"
'Crack'
I shot my head to the right and activated my thermal sight. I saw a heat signature off in the distance. It was bipedal, human. A head I didn't have on my wall yet. I grinned, my fangs showing. "Time to hunt."
With that I took off in the direction of the human. After several minutes, I get a few feet away from the human. I raise one my legs, ready to strike, but he turns towards me. For a split second I thought he saw me, but he turned around and took out a small device. "Done. (Makes a call) Huh, voicemail. Yo, Jack. The charges are set so don't head east. I don't need you and Arcee setting off my noise makers. (Ends call) Now, —"
The ground shakes and I heard shots fired. "Great, I'm missing the fight." I watche the human walk west. He stopped, marked the tree, and continued. He did this until he was out of my sight.
I step out into the clearing, "Hmm, Arcee is on this planet. This has been a wild turn of events indeed." (Evil laugh, ten seconds later, laugh stops) "Might as well follow this human to Arcee and this… Jack. I'll get to kill three birds with one stone."
I follow the human.
End p.o.v
Caleb's p.o.v
I finished marking the trees that had the charges near them. Then I heard it. I looked back to where I came from, it sounded like laughing. When it stopped, I scrambled up the tree and I started undoing the trap I made.
Whatever it is, it probably came from the ship. And if it was after me, it was about to be in a world of hurt. I hear it getting closer and closer and… it stops. "He went this way. Hmm, north-northwest, my ship is this way. Oh, I'll get to show him my collection before he is added to it. How… exciting."
(Sounds feminine… why are there female robots? Just look. Fine.)
I peek around the tree and I barely see her face, it is sleek and cute. I catch my breath when I see her eyes. They are a beautiful purple. She turns and looks at the tree, "I heard you. Come on out, I have something to show you." (Scrap) I throw a stick to the other tree and I watch as she turns sharply. I see her wince and shrug it off quickly. She readies her blasters, "Enough, come out now."
I get above her and prime the charge. "Up here." She looks up in time to have the charge detonate on her head while I cling to her back. Next thing I know, I'm in the air looking at her from above, (The fuck?!) Right as I start to fall, I notice that where I was on her back, there were eight razor like appendages that could have turned me into a pin cushion.
All eight arms come at me and I can't dodge. I look her in the eyes and I see hate, disgust, and… fear? She grabs me and starts to topple over.
We hit the ground and I roll out of her reach; as I stand up, she starts acting all frantic. All her arms lunging outward, desperately reaching for something. I run towards her, ducking under her legs as I grab her hand; she starts to calm down a little bit.
End p.o.v for Caleb
Caleb grabs Airachnid's hand; she smiles softly, "I caught you." She falls unconscious, "Thanks. I think." Caleb looks up as he hears blaster fire and a low rumble off in the distance. "How many Decepticons were on that ship? Hope Jack and Arcee are alright." He looks back towards all the charges, "Maybe I can bring'em this way and get'em with the charges. That would save a lot of time." Caleb gets up and starts retrieving the charges to create a new trap.
With Arcee and Jack
Arcee is driving like a maniac, swerving between trees and rocks, trying to stay out of the drones sight.
Arcee: Is it still back there?
Jack, holding on for dear life, glances back only to see that the drone has vanished. "Arcee, it's gone." "Whew, finally." She slows to a stop and Jack gets off (LOL) her back and she transforms. He hands her the helmet and she puts in back in her subspace. "So, uh, what now?" "Well, we could check out that explosion we heard or check in with base." "Got it." Jack takes his phone out and calls Ratchet. RING… RING… RING… "JACK! Finally, are all of you alright?" "Yeah, Arcee and I are fine, but we don't know about Caleb because one of those drones started chasing us. Don't worry, we lost it."
"THAT MAKES ME WORRY!" Jack pulls his phone away from his head and decides to put it on speaker. "If you lost the one drone, and the other is tracking Caleb, that means they are BOTH tracking Caleb as we speak! Do you know his last location?" "Yeah, he headed east of the crash site and put up noisemakers. We heard one go off a while ago—" "Are you sure?! Because one of those things will damage any Cybertronian and put it in a form of stasis for at least thirteen minutes. (Pause) How long has it been?" Arcee: Ratchet, it has been seven minutes; thirty-eight seconds and counting. Jack, we need to get going and find Caleb. Ratchet, we'll be hanging up now. "Alright, good luck."
Call ended. Arcee transforms and Jack gets on, he puts the helmet on then checks the .357. "Careful Jack, Ratchet designed special bullets that could penetrate Cybertronian armor. I don't need you taking half your body off with that thing." "Arcee, I'll be fine. I just hope I don't have to shoot." "Why? Afraid you'll miss?" She starts heading towards explosion
Airachnid's p.o.v
System error: Left side damaged. Status: Critical: Needs repairs
Right leg: Out of place. Status: Repairable
Optics: Offline. Status: Reset and restore
Processor: Damaged. Status: UNKNOWN.
Memory chip: Slightly damaged. Status: Recalibrating.
Armor integrity: 46% Status: Critical: Must repair
Optics: Online. Status: Functional
"Ugh… what the fuck hit me? GAH!" I jerked to the right, away from whatever was burning my side. "Do you mind!? I'm tryna patch you up!" The burning continues for a minute longer and then it stops. "Alright, your side was damaged pretty bad and you were leaking energon from a few damaged lines, but, I fixed you. Mostly." I look down to see my side and underarm repaired, it wasn't the best of repairs, but it was repaired. I sit up. "Thank you for the repairs, for that I won't kill you. Yet. I still need a human head for my collection." I glare at the human and I watch as his hands turn from tools, back into hands.
"Are you Cybertronian?" "No, I'm human." "But—" That when I hear the faint hum of an engine. "Human—" "Caleb." "Excuse me?" The human stands up, "My name is not human, it is Caleb. What's yours?"
Flashback
A small cybertronian girl sitting on the swing. All the other children avoid her, they see her as a freak. A monster. Just because of her extra arms. WHACK! She falls to the ground as energon leaks from her broken optic. "Whoa, nice throw Sideswipe! You hit it's eye!" "Oh that's nothin. I can throw a rav-ball ten quats of an astro-mile." The youngling holds her eye as she looks towards the voices. Boltstorm and Sideswipe, the two were inseparable. They were always antagonizing children of the lower class and making fun of them. Making fun of her the most.
(Keep in mind, when I say children or youngling, picture them as being seven to ten years old. Got it? Good. Carry on.)
The two walked closer and kicked her head down into the ground. They kept at it. Beating her into the ground. Then all of sudden, a roar was heard and they both froze as their energon ran cold. The ground started shaking rapidly and violently and then WHAM! Sideswipe and Boltstorm are knocked all the way to the street.
They stand up, "WHO DARES TOO—" Sideswipe freezes as he is now looking at rows of sharp teeth. The face turns and the bot is now looking into the eyes of a shaking Sideswipe. "Who dares to what, youngling?" says a deep voice. "W-w-who dares t-to strike the sons of c-council members." Boltstorm quivers out.
"Oh, forgive me. I did not know you were sons of councilmen. I thought you were sons of some low level scrap whore." The deep voice full of venom and sarcasm. The mighty bot transforms to reveal the proud form of Dinobot. "Now," he fumes, "What makes it right to strike a female who has done you no wrong?" "IT doesn't even deserve to be on Cybertron. It's just an abomination." At this, Dinobot looks to Sideswipe, "Do you agree with your companion?" With as much bravado he could muster, "Yes." WHAM! The two are backhanded with such force they fly half an astro-mile before they skid to a halt on the street.
With a grunt and pleased with the distance he flung the two, he walks towards the youngling on the ground. He kneels and gently picks her up, "Hmph, I should really thrash those two for this." Her optic was busted and her body was covered in dents and scratches. She was leaking energon, so much so that it puddled around her still form.
She weakly looks up to massive bot as everything goes black.
End flashback
"Hey, walking-talking robot, what's your name?" I resist the urge stomp on the human. (Sigh) "My name… is Airachnid."
End p.o.v
Alright, I just got tired of typing. Chapter 8 is being worked on. Whoo! Okay, joke time.
Q: How do you get a lawyer out of a tree?
A: You cut the rope.
Three men die and go to Hell, they meet Satan. He asks the first man, "What was your father's job?" "He made candles for a living." So Satan burns the guys dick off.
He goes to the second man, "What was your father's job?" "He made ropes for a living." So Satan rips the guys dick off.
He walks over to the third man, "What was your father's job?" With a smile, "He made lollipops."
Alright that's enough for now, comment down below if I should keep leaving jokes at the end of the chapters. Also, just completed the Master Chief edition. I'm fucking pumped to play Halo 5.
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